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Pure Storage Inc. missed expectations on earnings and revenues for the second straight quarter today, sending its stock plunging more than 18% in after-hours trading. The decline continued after the opening bell on Wednesday, with PSTG down 22% at mid-day. The company …
Stratoscale furthers its drive toward a multicloud hybrid platform
Continuing its evolution from a provider of hyperconverged software into the developer of a full private cloud software stack, Stratoscale Ltd. today introduced a new version of its namesake offering. Version 5 adds new identity management services along with support for message buses, domain …
Datastax previews cloud-native version of its Cassandra-based database
DataStax Inc. will kick off its new user conference today by introducing a cloud-native version of its Apache Cassandra-based NoSQL database management system, along with a set of services to enable users to get started rapidly developing applications in the cloud. DataStax Constellation …
Apptio buys Cloudability as cloud cost-management market heats up
Apptio Inc., which makes software that helps companies get a tighter grip on their information technology expenses, has signed a deal to acquire Cloudability Inc., an eight-year-old startup that specializes in tracking costs across multiple clouds. Terms weren’t announced, but Apptio said the …
Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform
Open-source unicorn Confluent Inc. is ready to go head-to-head with cloud computing giants with the release of a cloud-native and fully managed service based upon the Apache Kafka streaming platform. The announcement today fills an important gap in Confluent’s product portfolio. Although …
Digital transformation boom thrusts CIOs into media spotlight
For Bernie Gracy, the culmination of 20 years of speaking experience came last fall when he stepped on stage in front of 7,000 people at a Amazon Web Services Inc. conference in Chicago last summer. “This old dog had to learn some …
Red Hat rolls out OpenShift 4 with focus on scalability and automation
Calling it a common operating platform for the hybrid cloud, Red Hat, Inc. today rolled out version 4 of OpenShift, its version of the Kubernetes platform for container orchestration. The new version adds extensive automation features that Red Hat said enable administrators …
CEOs heap praise on open source as Red Hat opens final conference as an independent
In a scene that would have been surreal five years ago, Red Hat Inc. bookended the keynote session of what will likely be its last user conference as a public company with appearances by the chief executives of two companies that were …
Microsoft, Red Hat team up on OpenShift service on Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp.’s love affair with open-source software marked another milestone today as the company joined with Linux provider Red Hat Inc. to announce the general availability of a native version of Red Hat’s OpenShift on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. The companies said Azure …
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Come and get it
Red Hat Inc. kicked off its Red Hat Summit conference in Boston today with the much-anticipated announcement that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is now available. The release comes nearly six months after the newest version of the company’s flagship platform entered …